New Skylanders Toys Released to Benefit Autism Awareness

@KBABZ: Why? I'm just curious.

@ArcoJawa: YES! It would be great if they teamed up with an Autism foundation that actually HELPS and Supports Autistics, rather than saying we are a burden and wanting to eradicate us.

@moonbeam2: Educate yourself man. I know a fair few kids with somewhat severe autism. Please stop talking nonsense. Experts are experts for a reason, because they did the research that we didn't, that's why it'd be nothing short of ignorant to ignore them and take up your advice.

@moonbeam2: Austism awareness has increased massively so yes there are a lot of parents that worry their child has autism and might try too hard, so to speak, to get it diagnosed as such. This has happened with other things like ADHD, and will probably continue to happen. The rest of what you said I'm not so sure I can agree with :).

@moonbeam2: God won't cure autism. It's not made up either. Do you live with it? Are you autistic? are you raising a child on the spectrum? I assure, it's not some made of fad by corp fachist America.

@moonbeam2: I'm going to go ahead and take this moment to post some more information. As you can see from my post below I am the father of a severely Autistic child, and my brother actually has high functioning Autism (he just turned 30 but mentally is 8, has been for years.)

Autism is a bit more than just being awkward. Autistic people have a fundamental disconnect from most social situations that all other humans "just get." They cannot naturally read into body movements, social cues are hard to understand, and empathy is all but absent (which is why most Autistic children actually find it funny when others get hurt. The face we make when hurt is funny to them.) They struggle to make eye contact in natural conversation, etc. etc.

Since we don't know what physically causes Autism, we can only go off of the results. This means that you can be on the Autism spectrum after being in a car accident and having brain damage, causing the above issues to surface. Another problem is that those born with Autism are commonly issued other (separate) disorders such as Mental Retardation (what my son and brother are also diagnosed with). Another common disorder is seizures. These are not Autism but instead very common disorders given to those suffering from Autism.

Going off what you ended with, every single person has problems they need to overcome. We are all struggle with things others do easily. It's part of life and healthy to work on overcoming them.

@moonbeam2: Reminds me of the common use for OCD and just about any other debilitating disorder.

@gamingdevil800: As someone with Asperger's (which is rather similar, but not as severe as Autism) it's upsetting for me particularly. I remember finding out that a classmate was pretending to have AS to cover for his poor behaviour, and I don't think I've been more offended in my entire life.